Episode 3: In Conversation with Chidiogo Akunyili-Parr
December 2, 2021
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Episode 3 · December 2, 2021
Episode 3: In Conversation with Chidiogo Akunyili-Parr
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Summary
<p>My guest on this episode of Fearless with Uduak Amimo is represented by her daughter, the coach and storyteller Chidiogo Akunyili-Parr. Chidiogo has written a book about Dora Akunyili, her late mother and Nigeria’s former Information Minister. The late Mrs. Akunyili came to fame as the Director-General of Nigeria’s National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control between 2001 and 2008 for her fearlessness in confronting the cartels behind fake drugs in the country. Chidiogo’s book, ‘I Am Because We Are: An African Mother’s Fight for the Soul of a Nation,’ goes on sale in January 2022.</p>
<p>*Since recording this interview, Chidiogo has welcomed her first baby and lost her father, Dr. Chike Akunyili, who gunmen killed.</p>
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